Improvement in suspender button-ends



W. P. OSBORNE & S. H. BALDWIN. Suspender-Button End.

No. 219,300. Patented Sept. 2,1879.

rLPEl'ERS. PHOTQLITHDGRAPHER. WASHINGTON u c UNITED STATES PATENTOFFICE.

WILBUR F. OSBORNE AND STEPHEN H. BALDWIN, OF ANSONIA, CONN.

IMPROVEMENT IN SUSPENDER BUTTON-ENDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 219,300, datedSeptember 2, 1879 application filed J une 27, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, WILBUR F. OSBORNE and STEPHEN H. BALDWIN, ofAnsonia, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticnt, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Suspender Button-Straps,of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to certain improvements in suspenderbutton-straps of that class having flat ends and a contractedintermediate or central portion. Heretofore this contracted portion hasbeen constructed of a single cylindrical core surrounded by a woventubular casing or covering. By this construction the tubular portionlacks rigidity or body, and, in consequence, is liable to lump at thecenter when bent, which impairs its appearance and renders it liable torapidly wear at such lumped portion.

The object of our invention is to obviate these defects; and to this endit consists in a button strap or suspenderend constructed with fiatwoven ends, and with an intermediate or central portion composed of twoor more woven strands, the whole being woven in one piece, as more fullyhereinafter specified.

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents an elevation of our improved buttonstrap or suspender-end, having its central portion woven in separatestrands; Fig. 2, a cross-section of the contracted portion of the samebetween the two ends.

The letter A indicates the button strap or suspender-end complete. Theletter a indicates the flat ends of the button-strap or suspender-end,and a the contracted intermediate or central portion. This portion iscomposed'of a series of strands, a surrounded by an intermediatecovering, M, which may be subsequently twisted so as to form anapproximately cylindrical central or intermediate portion between thetwo ends. I

The button-holes in the fiat ends are preferably formed during theoperation of weaving, and the edges selvaged at the same time, ortheymay be formed afterward and overseamed, in the ordinary manner.

It will be perceived that in the button-strap or suspender-end as thusconstructed the intcrmediate or central portions will possess sufficientbody or rigidity to prevent such portion from lumping when bent, so thatits appearance will not be impaired, and a more (lurable article will beproduced.

What we claim is- As a new article of manufacture, a buttonstrap forsuspenders or Suspender-ends having fiat ends and an intermediate orcentral portion composed of a series of strands, the whole being formedof woven fabric in one and the same piece, substantially as specified.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing we have hereunto set our handsin the presence of the subscribing witnesses.

WlLBUR F. OSBORNE. STEPHEN H. BALDWIN. Witnesses:

FRANKLIN BURToN, ADOLPH W. KING.

